Early Buddhist Monachism, 600 B.C.-100 B.C. |
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Ananda Ancient India Aryan Asoka Asrama assembly āvāsa bhikkhave Brahmanical Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist and Jaina Buddhist Bhikkhus Buddhist community Buddhist monastic Buddhist monasticism Buddhist Sangha called canonical Catuddisa cenobitical Chap chapter character confession Council of Vesali Cullavagga developed Dhamma Dhammapada Digha Digha Nikaya disciplinary distinction doctrine early Buddhist eremitical fact footnote Gana guilty Bhikkhu householder Ibid idea inscriptions Jaina Jaina Sutras Jatilakas Kamma later Mahāparinibbāna Suttanta Mahāvagga mentioned Milindapanho monachism monasteries monastic laws monks Muni Nāgasena Nikaya observed offence Oldenberg original Pacittiya pain of Dukkata pana bhikkhu Paribrājakas Parivasa Pātimokkha period present thesis primitive rain-retreat Rajagaha religious mendicancy Rhys Davids robes rules Samanas Sanghādisesa Sanghakamma Sannyasis satthā says schism sects seems sixth century B.C. society story Sutta Sutta-nipāta Tathāgata theory translated Upanishads Upasampadā Uposatha Vassa Vedic Vesali Vihāra Vinaya Vinaya Texts Vinayadhara Vinayapitaka Vratya wandering word yathā
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Page 142 - Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves.
Page 143 - One addressed the venerable Ananda, and said : 'It may be, Ananda, that in some of you the thought may arise, "The word of the Master is ended, we have no teacher more!" But it is not thus, Ananda, that you should regard it. The truths and the rules of the order which I have set forth and laid down for you all, let them, after I am gone, be the Teacher to you.
Page 30 - The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment of adjudication.
Page 142 - I who will lead the brotherhood," or, "The order is dependent upon me," it is he who should lay down instructions in any matter concerning the order. Now the Tathagata, Ananda, thinks not that it is he who should lead the brotherhood, or that the order is dependent upon him. Why then should he leave instructions in any matter concerning the order?
Page 145 - ... so long as the brethren so train their minds that good and holy men shall come to them, and those who have come shall dwell at ease — so long may the brethren be expected, not to decline, but to prosper.
Page 109 - This you did not do. And if any of these have done any Wrong to his Neighbours by Word or Deed, so that the Congregation be thereby offended, the Curate shall advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table, until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented.
Page 71 - ... has settled in his own house, keeping up the memory of what he has learnt by repeating it regularly in some sacred spot, who has begotten virtuous sons, and concentrated all his senses on the Self, never giving pain to any creature, except at the tlrthas1 (sacrifices, &c.), he who behaves thus all his life, reaches the world of Brahman, and does not return, yea, he does not return.
Page 113 - In the contents of the Suttanipata we have, I think, an important contribution to the right understanding of Primitive Buddhism, for we see here a picture not of life in monasteries, but of the life of hermits in its first stage.